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• Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

  Mark Rowlands

  Lying, Apples, Deception

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• Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

  John McCain

  Osama Bin Laden, Bin Laden, Humans

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• You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

  Philip Roth

  Too Much, Human Nature, Humans

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jun 11, 2016

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• Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

  Richard Bach

  World, Limits, Problem

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• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Letters, Stones

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Book, People

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• Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

  Judy Woodruff

  Years, Track, Machines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Robots, Century

  "Space elevators and smart machines: Life in the year 2100" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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• In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to feel that science is, in the fullest sense, a ministry of good to all, not the private possession and luxury of a few, that it is the best expression of human intelligence and not the abracadabra of a school, that it is a guiding light and not a dazzling fog.

  William Jay Youmans

  School, Science, Intelligent

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• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Reality

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• Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Mean, Opposites

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Intelligence, Population

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• In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ideas, Issues

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Learning, Essence, Connections

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Technological Change, Profound

  "Want to impress your friends? Tell them internet growth is sigmoidal, not exponential" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2007.

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• To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Music, Mean, Intuition

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• Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Cutting, Emotional, Sideshows

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• Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.

  John Lennox

  People, Matter, Firsts

  John C. Lennox (2009). “God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?”, p.210, Lion Books

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• Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wind, Play, Grace

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way.

  Dalai Lama

  Use, Way, Emotion

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• Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

  Alfred de Musset

  Perfection, Intelligence, Triumph

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• Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Underestimate, Humans

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Humans, Greatest Gifts

  FaceBook post by SirKenRobinson from Jul 19, 2012

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• There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Ignorance, Mean

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